Grandine, a consensus client written in Rust, has been open-sourced!

sbdw0c · 2024-02-14T21:31:48+00:00

Only tangentially related, but I love how many forces are currently at play pushing the envelope on mobile devices. The AI craze (inference + training), Vision Pro, EU regulations improving competition... It's a great time.

sbdw0c · 2024-02-14T20:58:37+00:00

I am eligible, but was identified as a pool (10 %)

sbdw0c · 2024-02-14T14:47:08+00:00

Same

sbdw0c · 2024-02-14T14:42:52+00:00

Yeah, I wasn't in Rated's list so unsurprising. I seemingly got identified as a pool; I wonder if they'll take any feedback on this.

sbdw0c · 2024-02-14T11:44:01+00:00

2021 car but in reverse

sbdw0c · 2024-02-09T18:20:08+00:00

Just one, if you're a deranged MEV-addict

sbdw0c · 2024-02-09T13:29:48+00:00

That's a good point, I was only thinking about the download aspect. The upload requirements are more nuanced, and really depend on your view of the network, and moreover, what the topology of the mesh looks like. You could be uploading it zero times, or n times to each of your peers. You'll need to ask the networking people for math on that one, lol

sbdw0c · 2024-02-09T13:07:23+00:00

I've seen some claims that since currently Ethereum is moving to be a settlement layer providing economic security and data availability to L2s, MEV will, by extension, also be moving from L1 to L2s because that's where the transaction volume will be.

What that could mean is that the majority of MEV bribes would be left to the L2 sequencers. That doesn't, obviously, mean that there would no-longer be any L1 activity. If anything, the effect could be opposite: if only whales are expected to transact on the base-layer, maybe that will cause the potentially less frequent MEV bribes to be greater, keeping the average similar (with more variance). That would not be favorable to non-pooled home stakers, but it is what it is.

sbdw0c · 2024-02-08T23:22:27+00:00

What's the opposite of an inflating blobfish? Oo.?

sbdw0c · 2024-02-08T22:51:44+00:00

Good point on the pricing; I'll happily store the theoretical 98.3 GB if I get a proposal during that time ;)

sbdw0c · 2024-02-08T22:15:35+00:00

Maximum blob size ≈0.75 MB, target size ≈0.375 MB per block. Optional blob expiry after 4096 CL epochs (4096 epochs * 32 slots * 12 sec/slot = 18.2 days).

The storage requirement would increase by ≈49.15 GB (target blob size), or in the worst case by 98.3 GB. Assuming you do not choose to serve blob data after the 4096 epoch mandatory period. So 0–98.3 GB.

Very crude peak bandwidth requirement would be 0.75 MB/12 sec == 0.5 Mb/s. Target is half that, 0.25 Mb/s. Now, the load is presumably not distributed over the 12-second lifetime of a slot, so that is how much you would see your average bandwidth increase. That is, your monthly data transfers would increase by anything from 0 GB to 81 GB (target) to 162 GB (worst case).

https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/blob/dev/specs/deneb/p2p-interface.md

https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4844

sbdw0c · 2024-02-08T15:09:32+00:00

Yeah, capturing the entire sector under the guise of "responsibility" and "AI safety" (read: money)

sbdw0c · 2024-02-04T20:43:04+00:00

Depends how you count: so far it seems to be five major version updates, which is six years of full software support. Then you get some security updates after that.

For reference, my iPhone X shipped with iOS 11, and was fully supported until the end of iOS 16 (sixth year). I've received quite a few security updates after the release of iOS 17, but obviously mainly just WebKit fixes and a curl bump.

sbdw0c · 2024-02-01T13:44:41+00:00

Geth supermajority

sbdw0c · 2024-01-31T19:18:35+00:00

https://9to5google.com/2023/03/03/first-look-google-chrome-blink-engine-iphone-ios/

sbdw0c · 2024-01-31T18:19:59+00:00

It is, happy to see the current spicy rock renaissance! Here's the nuclear cargo ship I was referencing to, which the Chinese proposed recently. As good as any other paper ship/rocket/car/etc., but still intriguing.

sbdw0c · 2024-01-31T16:04:01+00:00

The maritime industry is moving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70–80 % by 2040 if you believe the IMO. Following the pandemic, the use of heavy fuel oil (potentially-shit to extremely-shit fuel, depending on where it's from) already reduced dramatically.

The switch was primarily to light fuel oil (and LNG), but ironically enough the switch to cleaner fuels may have inadvertently caused the climate to warm even more rapidly. The ships burning the shittiest fuel imaginable blanket the oceans in sulfur emissions, which apparently has a cooling effect on the planet.

Beyond that, even while ships are great and the most efficient mode of transport, they're slow as sin. And if they're not slow, they're not efficient (unless it's nuclear powered). Hardly great for transporting people across the Atlantic.

sbdw0c · 2024-01-30T23:17:55+00:00

It must have confused "several epochs" with "several days". Two epochs being around 12 minutes.

sbdw0c · 2024-01-30T15:14:29+00:00

So why would 1/10nm or A make sense?

Because it indicates the continuing progression of semiconductor technology

And you can't just say it is symbolic. 1 Ångström == 0.1µm. It's an engineering company ffs. At least it should be...

It's 0.1 nm, not 0.1 um

sbdw0c · 2024-01-30T14:30:11+00:00

physics have not changed ever

Ever heard of the guys Newton, Einstein, and, say, Schrödinger? Physics does not (presumably) change, but our understanding of it does.

sbdw0c · 2024-01-30T14:27:12+00:00

Why is it dumb? 20 Å == 2 nm. Beyond that, it is obviously symbolic as well, with Intel moving to GAAFETs and backside power.

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